Filmmaker Albert Brooks is accusing Sony Pictures of cowardice in refusing to release his latest work, saying that studio execs are terrified of public reaction to the title, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. Brooks insists that, despite the title, the film satirizes “American ignorance of the Muslim world and [does] not touch on religion.” Sony argues that it passed on the film “on its merits,” and says that Brooks is “manufacturing controversy.” Sony raised some liberal hackles a couple of years back when it declined to release Michael Moore’s controversial documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11.